Moonlight Marine
Albert Pinkham Ryder
1870–90
Medium
Oil and possibly wax on wood panel
Dimensions
11 1/2 x 12 in. (29.2 x 30.5 cm)
Classification
Painting
Culture
American
Department
The American Wing
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Samuel D. Lee Fund, 1934
Accession Number
34.55
Tags
CloudsBoats
About the Artist
Albert Pinkham Ryder · 1847–1917
Largely self-taught, Albert Pinkham Ryder is widely considered one of America's greatest visionary painters. His intense use of color and mysterious themes are distinctly Romantic. Ryder moved with his family from New Bedford, Massachusetts to New York in 187, where he studied briefly at the New York National Academy of Design. He studied the engravings of Camille Corot and other Barbizon painters...